Gujarat government has formed a new seven-member committee, which is headed by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) chairman. The main of the new committee is to fix the fee limit for self-financed schools and create different categories of the fee structure.
The committee has been asked to submit the report latest by February 18.
The committee will also invite the representations from the management of self-financed schools and parents associations to keep their views into consideration as well.
Another task for the committee is to prepare a report related to the various categories of the self-financed schools on the basis of the facilities being provided by them to the children after taking into consideration 'the factors suggested by the people for fixing the cut-off amount under Section 9 of the Gujarat Self-financed Schools (Regulation of Fees) Act, 2017.'
“The orders for the constitution of the committee have been received on Tuesday. Since the committee has a short deadline, proceedings have already been initiated. Accordingly, an advertisement seeking recommendations from private schools and parents will be issued in newspapers on Thursday,” confirmed the GSHSEB Chairman A J Shah, who has also been appointed as the chairman of the committee.
“In compliance with the directions given by the Supreme Court, the state government constitutes a committee, headed by the chairman, GSHSEB, to enable the management of private schools and representatives of parents associations suggest norms and factors for fee cut-off limit of self-financed schools under Section 9 of the Act and also to create the categories of fee structure along with the facilities being made available by various schools,” the notification states.